A young woman and her father will travel together with food and sanitary and self-protection material to deliver it, and will pick up relatives to return
“I only think about getting out of here with all the help possible, entering Ukraine and distributing what is necessary to survive,” Oksana Turchenyak, 27, explained yesterday. Together with his father, Mijail, he will load the food, medical supplies and self-protection material against the war that he manages to gather in a couple of vans and will start the march from Cartagena. «I will try to enter the country, with the accreditation of some NGO, to distribute everything. My dad will wait at the Romanian border for my brother’s wife and two sons, Oleg, and the other’s wife, Vladimir, to come,” she commented.
Oksana, who arrived hours ago from Andorra, where she lives, to the family home in Galifa, in the western part of the municipality, speaks with her brothers on social networks, “although they fail a lot.” By this means she had news of how “they had to hide in the bathroom of her house in Kiev, on February 23”, and that “the next day they left with what they could, in the middle of a big traffic jam. They drove more than a day, between the sound of bombs, until they reached Chortkov». From this town in the southwest they want to reach the Romanian border to pass the women and children.
Oksana is not satisfied with that rescue. She then wants to go to her country to “enter as much as possible and deliver what we collect here.” His base of operations was yesterday at the Galifa sports center. “We have started a WhatsApp group to coordinate,” she said. Neighborhood groups from Santa Lucía and the western area, among others, are involved in it.
The City Council announced yesterday the launch of its own collection point for donations of the same items, in the Security Building, in accordance with the Association of Ukrainians of Cartagena. “There is a lack of food for the families that may come from their country and sanitary and self-protection material to send it there,” said the mayor, Noelia Arroyo. The Ukrainian community is almost 800 in Cartagena and more than 4,000 in the region, according to this group. Arroyo expressed her solidarity with the Ukrainian people and her willingness to help them.